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eas, and by him they were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. Hearne's diary and note-books, in about one hundred and fifty small duodecimo volumes, were among them.[66] His printed books were sold by Thomas Osborne on the 16th of February 1736, and following days. The title-page of the catalogue reads: 'A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of that great Antiquarian Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford: and of another Gentleman of Note. Consisting of a very great Variety of Uncommon Books, and scarce ever to be met withal. Which will begin to be sold very cheap, the lowest Price mark'd in each Book, at T. Osborne's Shop in Gray's Inn, on Monday the 16th day of February 1735-36.' The title-page has also a small portrait of Hearne, with the following lines below it:-- 'Pox on't quoth time to Thomas Hearne, Whatever I forget, you learn.' The catalogue contains six thousand seven hundred and seventy-six lots. Hearne's publications, which were almost all printed by subscription at Oxford, are very numerous. Among the most valuable are an edition of Livy in 6 vols., 1708; the _Life of Alfred the Great_, from Sir John Spelman's manuscript in the Bodleian Library, 1710; Leland's _Itinerary_, 9 vols., 1710; Leland's _Collectanea_, 6 vols., 1715; Roper's _Life of Sir Thomas More_, 1716; Camden's _Annals_, 3 vols., 1717; _Curious Discourses by Eminent Antiquaries_, 1720; Robert of Gloucester's _Chronicle_, 2 vols., 1724; Peter of Langtoft's _Chronicle_, 2 vols., 1725; _Liber Niger Scaccarii_, 2 vols., 1728; and Walter of Hemingford's _History_, 2 vols., 1731. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 66: Extracts from these volumes were published by Dr. Bliss in 1857, and again in 1869, under the title of _Reliquiae Hearnianae_; and Hearne's _Remarks and Collections_ are now being printed by the Oxford Historical Society.] THOMAS RAWLINSON, 1681-1725 Thomas Rawlinson, who, Dibdin says, 'may be called the Leviathan of book-collectors during nearly the first thirty years of the eighteenth century,' was born in the Old Bailey on the 25th of March 1681. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor of London in 1705-6, by Mary, eldest daughter of Richard Tayler, of Turnham Green, Middlesex, who kept the Devil Tavern near Temple Bar. He was also an elder brother of Dr. Richard Rawlinson, the nonjuring bishop, who was himself an ardent collector. In 1699 he matriculated at the University of Oxford from St. John's College, h
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